Category: Picture of the Week
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Picture of the Week – White Field
White Field Originally uploaded by idarknight I featured a green mum back in August, and that one turned out really well as a tricolor shot. So I tried this one as a monochrome and it worked out not too bad. The flower was white, so that helped get things into the classic monochrome mode. I…
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Picture of the Week – Sweet Bugs II
Sweet Bugs II Originally uploaded by idarknight I was thinking that I should have done one of my more creative abstracts this week, but I thought, in honor of Bug’s birthday party (the reason why there was no post last Friday) and in line with some of what I had wrote about in the last…
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Picture of the Week – Light vs Dark
Light vs Dark Originally uploaded by idarknight One of the things that I learned shooting macro is that even though shooting wide open provides a nicely thin DOF while needing less light, there is often a need for the aperture to be stopped down in order to get detail across the entire subject that one…
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Picture of the Week – Starry Night
Starry Night Originally uploaded by idarknight Over the past few months, I’ve been trying to get star shots and star trails where and when I can. I thought that on Turks, an island with relatively little development, I might be able to get an amazing set of sky shots. Well, between best intentions, baby and…
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Picture of the Week – Big and Small
Big and Small Originally uploaded by idarknight One of the things that make a good picture according to the people who write books about making good pictures is the use of symmetry, similarity and contrast. I don’t always try to compose using those “rules”, but on occasion, I do spot an opportunity to juxtapose elements…